"We're just going to kill the dollar"

[GlassSteagallfan]

Did not see this posted. Checked several sites that posted this in January, but the video was 'no longer available'. Found a video (last one?) posted below:

From: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/54163

...In 2011, economist Kyle Bass interviewed a senior member of the Obama administration about its planned solutions for fixing the US economy and trade deficit[ia].

Among the questions he asked was about U.S. exports and wages, but the question itself was not nearly as important as the response he received from this senior administration official. In fact, this single, seven word response clarifies everything, explains everything, and leaves little else to discuss: “We’re just going to kill the dollar.”

There it is, the entire agenda in one short sentence. It explains everything we’ve been seeing domestically and globally. That one statement makes every other question irrelevant, or otherwise answers all economic questions and explains everything. Nothing else matters. I urge you to ponder that statement and all that it implies. Doing so will provide you with the clarity to understand not only what is taking place today, but what is yet to come.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PJQKJqGC7w0

[Tesseract]

The benefits of a low dollar to any exporting economy are enormous, of course if it gets out of control you have hyper-inflation, but right now inflation in the US is low. The cost of living in the US is incredibly low - gas is unbelievably cheap, there are gratuitous 17 mpg trucks everywhere you look. Food is cheap, obesity rates are sky high. Houses are cheap (plus if you do need a mortgage you can thank the Fed for your low interest rate). Consumer goods are so cheap that sophisticated electronics are treated as if they are disposable. It almost feels like deflationary period, this wouldn't be the case if inflation was between 10 and 20 percent. Of course, to go with this, wage inflation is about zero (actually it is negative, I believe), so people in low paying jobs can still work a 40 hour week and have trouble staying afloat - and it is getting worse. Despite this US conservatives are fighting efforts to increase the minimum wage.

Many countries envy the low dollar that the US has.

[Jeffrey]

The dollar has been slowly "dying" since 1913. What's really going to "kill" it is when it's no longer recognized as a world reserve currency. This process is well under way. We are in fact nearing the end of enjoying that luxury.

I'm on my phone right now and I would love to discuss it more because I still have a lot to learn about it. I read the article by Hagmann and even I can tell his understanding of currency and economics is lacking (based on what I've read).

Kyle Bass on the other hand is a very knowledgeable individual.

Just my two cents .. er, well my dollars worth.

[rgray222]

Posted by Tesseract (here)
The benefits of a low dollar to any exporting economy are enormous, of course if it gets out of control you have hyper-inflation, but right now inflation in the US is low. The cost of living in the US is incredibly low - gas is unbelievably cheap, there are gratuitous 17 mpg trucks everywhere you look. Food is cheap, obesity rates are sky high. Houses are cheap (plus if you do need a mortgage you can thank the Fed for your low interest rate). Consumer goods are so cheap that sophisticated electronics are treated as if they are disposable. It almost feels like deflationary period, this wouldn't be the case if inflation was between 10 and 20 percent. Of course, to go with this, wage inflation is about zero (actually it is negative, I believe), so people in low paying jobs can still work a 40 hour week and have trouble staying afloat - and it is getting worse. Despite this US conservatives are fighting efforts to increase the minimum wage.

Many countries envy the low dollar that the US has.

I am not really sure why you think housing, gas and food are cheap. Yes the Europeans pay a hell of a lot more for their petrol but that is because politicians have raped, pillaged and taxed the gas to prices that are embarrassingly high. Just because other countries pay more for gas does not mean, imply or suggest that we are getting a great deal and our gas should be higher. OPEC is based on dollars and when this absurd cartel sees the dollar getting weak they simply jack the price up, so a weak dollar affects every aspect of life through the price of oil. Contrary to what many people believe there is absolutely no shortage of fuel in the ground. Need and greed dictate the price of gas not supply and demand.

While food-price inflation was a typical 2.2 percent during 2012, it’s expected to be nearly 4 percent, maybe more, during 2013, as the impacts of last year’s drought finally come into play, according to a recent report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Inflation doubling on food will have a major impact on the economy and the jobs issue. I could sit and pick holes in how the CPI is indexed through exclusions and substitution but a walk through your local grocery store tells you that price are escalating on a monthly basis.

Housing prices grew last year in the US by 7.6% the median price for a home is 238,800. That is a lot of money by anybodies standard.

It’s important to take a step back and think about the real driving force behind rising home prices.Everyone needs to ask the question......................how home prices can rise in an environment in which unemployment remains high, there is little growth in take-home pay, taxes have risen for every single American that pays taxes (not just the rich) and lending standards continue to be tight, so how in the world can the housing sector thrive when all these things are happening.

The federal reserve is buying $45,000,000,000 PER MONTH of mortgages from banks with no ending date. This money is deceiving the American people into thinking that the housing market is rebounding. This is dishonest and it is a bubble that will burst. The end result will be either unsustainable debt or a collapse of the the dollar or a more likely some hybrid of both of those nightmares.

The stimulus was a failure by most economist estimations, the investment did not return higher employment rates, stronger economy or stronger exports. The banking, insurance and car companies bailouts did not provide a needed boost to the economy. By all indications these companies would have been in about the same position as they are today by going through the normal bankrupt court proceedings that other companies have been using for decades. The difference is that the American taxpayer is on the hook for billions that have been written off by these companies when they reorganized under the federal "too big to fail bailout program".

The Obama administration has spent billions on these programs and the housing fiasco is only the latest way they have found to falsely stimulate the economy. You cannot act in this careless manor without facing a day of reckoning.

The hyper inflation that you speak about is probably a few short steps away, there has been a ton of money poured into the economy and no signs of it stopping any time soon and all that money now appears to be nothing but a bridge to cronyism.

You can make a weak case at best as the liberals have done, if the money did not get put into the economy things would be much worse.

This is the tip of the iceberg for the out of control spending that all politicians are doing from both sides of the isle but being led by by a president that has done his best to have no budget for four full years. No budget........no spending limits, exactly what the administration wants.

Also, I believe this video is more honest than most people want to believe the wording is that they want to "kill" the dollar, not weaken the dollar or slow the dollar down. There is a huge difference, using the word kill the dollar sounds premeditated and very much intentional.

The US is sitting on a financial tinderbox that is about to go up in flames and when that happens everything gets pulled into the vacuum behind it. Killing the dollar just seems to been another piece of a well orchestrated program of destroying the economy. Once it is destroyed it can then be remade in a way more to their liking.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by rgray222 (here)
The hyper inflation that you speak about is probably a few short steps away, there has been a ton of money poured into the economy and no signs of it stopping any time soon and all that money now appears to be nothing but a bridge to cronyism.

From where I sit, money has not been pouring into the economy. What we're seeing is the centralization of debt paper, likely in anticipation of some major foreclosures, bankruptcies and defaults. US "citizens" (I use that word advisedly) will continue to see their domestic economy stagnate and the price of imports (nothing important ... just food, gas, clothing and other such stuff) rising.

The balance sheets of such institutions as JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs are seeing that other side of that Federal Reserve action, not the average American person.

In my view, the hallmark of hyperinflation, the exchanging of wheel barrow of currency for a loaf of bread, won't happen. Rather the price of domestically produced bread won't change all that rapidly, but increasingly more people will pay for that bread with "food stamps". Already, as of Dec 2012, 47,791,996 Americans are on food stamps (see here). Given the current US population of about 315 million, this puts some 15% of the population on food stamps. They are the modern day version of the 1930's soup line.

The American empire has made a habit of driving other nations into debt, then forcing them into default so as to take control of whatever resources or potential incomes they had.

It's America's turn, for a dose of her own noxious "monetary medicine."

[T Smith]

Posted by Tesseract (here)
The benefits of a low dollar to any exporting economy are enormous, of course if it gets out of control you have hyper-inflation, but right now inflation in the US is low. The cost of living in the US is incredibly low - gas is unbelievably cheap, there are gratuitous 17 mpg trucks everywhere you look. Food is cheap, obesity rates are sky high. Houses are cheap (plus if you do need a mortgage you can thank the Fed for your low interest rate). Consumer goods are so cheap that sophisticated electronics are treated as if they are disposable. It almost feels like deflationary period, this wouldn't be the case if inflation was between 10 and 20 percent. Of course, to go with this, wage inflation is about zero (actually it is negative, I believe), so people in low paying jobs can still work a 40 hour week and have trouble staying afloat - and it is getting worse. Despite this US conservatives are fighting efforts to increase the minimum wage.

Many countries envy the low dollar that the US has.

I encourage everyone who believes inflation is low is acquaint themselves with the work of John Williams, shawdowstats.com, who employs the exact BLS metrics at calculating CPI before they started blatantly fudging the numbers for political reasons, circa early 1980s or thereabouts. Every year since the BLS gets more "creative" in their accounting metrics so to spit out the inflation number we all want to hear. In other words, just because FOX News, MSNBC, and the Ministry of Truth tell us inflation is low doesn't mean it's so. Inflation has actually been running at approximately 10% a year for the past few years, according to Williams, which pretty much runs in line with ordinary personal experiences at the grocery store, with health care costs, etc. That said, you are correct wage inflation is zero and is actually negative in real terms. It is not possible to have wage inflation with a 20%+ unemployment rate. You are also correct that there are some sectors of the economy that are deflationary, like electronics, TVs, etc., which offsets the aggregate. Even so, inflation is not as tame as the talking heads would have us all believe. There are also other factors that the official numbers do not account for anymore. For example, the quality of the food supply is deteriorating (i.e. quality down, cheaper to produce), with the onset of GMOs and the growing centralization of the food industrial complex (think Monsanto). This development drives prices (and quality) down. So yes, these are deflationary developments, just like electronics. All things being equal, given these trends, the cost of food would actually be declining. But once one factors in this declining variable against the real measure of inflation, it doesn't seem like the price of food is going up that much. This is how the Ministry of Truth can kind of get away with the BS they're peddling. However, I challenge anyone who wants to purchase the same basket of quality produce today, e.g. farm grown, organic real food vs the same basket of produce ten years ago, to compare prices. The price increases are astronomical and are increasing annually, just as Williams' metrics tell us they are. It is getting to the point where only the "rich" or at best upper middle class can afford to eat real food, which is highly inflationary. Sure, Frankenfoods may be moderately priced, but so is dog food. There are always ways for big companies like Monsanto to cut corners to make cheaper dog food and cheaper processed food. From a purely economical standpoint, nearly everybody consuming these foods will be dead at an early age, which suits the system just fine, being that it is cost effective in terms of social security benefits, the truncated cost of socialized health care per person, etc. Side issue.

If you owe your neighbor $100, and don't have it, it would be a very a prudent policy, if you were the architect of monetary policy, to debase the dollar via inflation to the point where you could pay back your debt at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar, or perhaps even lower. This is the objective of the steady inflation we now see. Of course if this strategy so happens to kill the dollar, that would suit the objective as well, as others have pointed out. Personally, I think the goal is to steadily debase the dollar, trying to control the process if they can, and if things get out of hand in a hyper-inflationary, uncontrollable way, TBTB will go to plan B and just euthanize the dollar and start over in a new Bretton-Woods type of deal, likely after a WWIII conflict, etc. Order out of chaos sort of thing. As it stands now I think it's wide open how this will all unfold. There are many planned scenarios and many potential doors to go through.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Paul (here)
It's America's turn, for a dose of her own noxious "monetary medicine."

To continue in this vein, perhaps the key reason to get out of the US Dollar (for those of us who still hold some dollars) is not that the Dollar will become essentially worthless, but because "they" will be stealing them.

This theft continues, and has been occurring through various means such as:

• higher (though not hyper-inflationary) prices on imports (gas, food, ...), taxes, fines, and fees
• collapsing housing market and foreclosures (*),
• failures in investments from outright theft to manipulated markets,
• reduced income potential (fewer working, for less income and fewer hours), and
• bank failures and confiscation of retirement, investment and banking accounts.

(*) When someone thought they were paying down a mortgage on an $800,000 home ten years ago, and now faces foreclosure on a $500,000 home now (same house, worth less), they end up losing all their years even decades of mortgage payments and what they might have thought to be their largest store of wealth. These numbers are a realistic example.

For those who don't actually have a continuing need for US Dollars, such as almost any person outside the US, and any nation who has developed sufficient trade and monetary relations to function without US Dollar reserves, the US Dollar and US Treasury debt become burdens, to be unloaded as best as possible.

For those who do have a continuing need for US Dollars, such as almost any person within the US, the problem becomes how to continue to keep any purchasing power you have gained, and how to continue to get more dollars sufficient for one's cash flow needs. What you have gets stolen, and what you would earn becomes harder to come by.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Paul (here)
For those who do have a continuing need for US Dollars, such as almost any person within the US, the problem becomes how to continue to keep any purchasing power you have gained, and how to continue to get more dollars sufficient for one's cash flow needs. What you have gets stolen, and what you would earn becomes harder to come by.

Legendary Quantum Fund manager and commodities bull, Jim Rogers, says it well in this interview:

“Anything they know about—they might easily take.”

[Tesseract]

Looking back over the last ~two years in my own life, gas is no more expensive (actually it is slightly cheaper now, although it is forever oscillating around $4/gal), bananas are no more expensive, my rent is no more expensive, gold is no more expensive, my exchange rate is no worse (actually it is better). Whatever is going up at 10% per year isn't affecting my wallet. Although to be fair my laundromat did subject me to the outrage of having put in an extra quarter in the machine this year (25 cents on top of $6.75 --> 3.7 %).

[T Smith]

One area that is definitely going up 10% is health care. Every year the premiums on most health care plans go up approximately 10%. Look at your health care plan. A lot of these costs are also hidden to consumers, if employers pick up the bill, or if insurance companies pick up the bill, so they don't know the difference. In addition certain prescriptions that aren't covered by most health care plans have increased at least 10% a year. I know this from experience.

The price of oil, gold, silver, and many other commodities are controlled by geopolitical players. The price of gold and silver are specifically kept artificially low via creating unlimited fiat money and purchasing naked shorts, as much as necessary to manipulate the price. As gold and silver are legitimate competing currencies, this is done to keep fiat currency in favor. In theory central banks and their agents could bring the price of silver down to a penny if they wanted to, although even the most dense of observers would likely call "foul" if they did so.

In addition, we may see oil in a prolonged deflationary period if it behooves a geopolitical agenda. If the Anglo-American Empire ever gets in a serious conflict with Russia, expect oil prices to plummet. Cartels control price, and economic warfare is often the catalyst. A low price cripples our biggest oil-producer competitors. If you want to bring Russia to its knees, all you need to do is kill the oil price. Similarly, if you want to bring China to its knees, raise the oil price. This dynamic is laid out in James Norman's excellent work, The Oil Card. Highly recommended reading.

I can't speak to the price of bananas; I have absolutely no idea why the price is steady, although I imagine the price of bananas and other such produce is highly dependent on the price of oil. Oil goes up, bananas go up. Oil goes down, bananas go down. Oil remains steady, the price of bananas remain steady.

Real estate is also deflationary, as you correctly point out. This is the direct result of the housing bubble that burst in late 2007 and which still has not recovered. No one dare raise the rent in this market. Increased taxation on the income of an ever narrowing demographic that still retains high discretionary income is also a deflationary measure. Our politicians will tell us we need to raise taxes on the "rich" (which really means the middle class) to be fiscally responsible, but this really has nothing to do with it. Governments could care less if they collect one penny in taxes (except for to control inflation). Taxes are levied for two, and only two reasons: to control the spending behavior of the masses and to curb inflation. This was admitted by chairman of the New York Federal Reserve, Beardsly Ruml, http://www.curiousevidence.com/(S(b3...les.aspx?id=21, and is also discussed here: http://mmtwiki.org/wiki/MMT_Overview

The bottom line is there are many deflationary aspects of our economy. Couple this with other aspects of rampant inflation and you get a muddy soup of deflation/inflation contributing to influence the ultimate aggregate.

[GlassSteagallfan]

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Submitted by Douglas Hagmann



The economic agenda: In plain sight

Some might be surprised to learn that the fate of America’s economy has already been determined, verified and announced by the Obama White House. Yet, it has received scant attention from the corporate media. In 2011, economist Kyle Bass interviewed a senior member of the Obama administration about its planned solutions for fixing the US economy and trade deficit[ia].

Among the questions he asked was about U.S. exports and wages, but the question itself was not nearly as important as the response he received from this senior administration official. In fact, this single, seven word response clarifies everything, explains everything, and leaves little else to discuss: “We’re just going to kill the dollar.”

There it is, the entire agenda in one short sentence. It explains everything we’ve been seeing domestically and globally. That one statement makes every other question irrelevant, or otherwise answers all economic questions and explains everything. Nothing else matters. I urge you to ponder that statement and all that it implies. Doing so will provide you with the clarity to understand not only what is taking place today, but what is yet to come.



Murder & High Treason

It is important to note the specificity of the word “kill.” Stated in the active voice, it means an unambiguously intentional and deliberate act. The murder of our national currency, the United States Dollar (USD), is the ultimate agenda to be implemented under Obama. To “kill” our national currency will subvert the United States and destroy it from within. This begs a number of questions, including what type of Americans would actually have, as their objective, the destruction of our national currency? To whom do they hold their allegiance, if not to the American people whose life’s work as well as the toil of our ancestors is represented in the form of wealth held in U.S. dollars? Does this make any sense to us, as Americans? The answer of course is “no.”

By its very definition, to kill our national currency is an act of high treason by those engaged in this activity. It undermines the very sovereignty and survival of our nation, and will have a life-changing impact on every citizen in the U.S. It will also impact every nation and the people of every nation on the planet, as the USD is presently the world’s reserve currency. It is an act that should result in the filing of criminal charges against the conspirators, a trial of their peers and if convicted, a death sentence. It’s that serious.

According to my source, we are past the point of no return. We will not be able to stop what is coming, but must be wise enough to prepare and “get out of the way.” The murder plot involving the death of the dollar did not begin with Obama, but he and other conspirators have accelerated the plans, plots and schemes for its demise.

The ultimate objective

The ultimate objective is to implement an international currency in tandem with a system of global governance. The problem is that most people are not thinking large enough, nor do they understand the magnitude of the lie. They are not seeing the larger picture as their focus is diverted elsewhere. For example, they focus on various tentacles of the octopus such as the gun confiscation initiative, the DHS armament acquisitions and economic woes as independent and unrelated events. They are not.

Meanwhile, others continue to adhere to, or even perpetuate the dual party meme of governance, holding dearly to the notion that there is a practical difference between the Republican and Democrat parties. Have we not seen sufficient evidence that they are now of one party acting in concert with each other? They cannot see the collusion and backroom deals, and continue to hope that the next election will finally change the unchangeable continuity of agenda.

Most of the elected officials are on-board with the subjugation of the United States to a global system of governance. Some are actively facilitating this agenda, while others are making nominal objections on the stage of political theater while hoping to earn a seat at the global table. It’s entertainment for the globalists, distraction of the masses, and diversionary fodder for the talking heads in the media.

America has become a captured operation – captured from within. Think of the Vichy French, internal collaboration with the enemy, or softening the ground for a full takeover from within. The takeover of America has already happened, the collaborators have already been installed, and we are now on a path to complete subjugation of a larger global system of governance. If you continue to doubt this, how else would you explain the numerous examples of our dual-party governmental acquiescence of self destruction?

“Signs, signs, everywhere signs…”

Those who are pleased about the new record setting stock-market highs and various other manipulated statistics that indicate our economy is improving will be the most vocal critics of this report and who will attempt to discredit the validity of the information offered here. The more intellectually astute will look beyond the statistics offered for mass consumption not only to identify the deliberately manipulated data, but to understand what is actually driving these false hopes, figures and data. It is a magic show, and many are still captivated by the magicians’ many diversions, failing to realize that we are engaged in a global war while being simultaneously hobbled by enemy infiltrators from within.

One reason we are seeing new stock market highs is the rush to the dollar from other currencies, especially in the Eurozone. Another reason is the monetization of our debt by the Federal Reserve, despite the previous denials of Ben Bernanke and others.

Simply put, the plan by the globalists, or the central bankers and those behind them, is to create this rush to the USD like passengers from sinking ships to lifeboats. Once the lifeboats are filled to capacity, they will be sunk, and the United States Dollar will be completely worthless. As in such a scenario, many will not make it. Many will die from what is coming. The level of evil behind this plan is incomprehensible to the normal human mind.

Russia, China, Syria and Iran

As I detailed in my multiple reports about Benghazi, we are at war with Russia. After removing Qaddafi from power in Libya, the Obama-Clinton black-ops plan was immediately put into action. Benghazi was the logistics hub for arming the anti-Assad terrorists by our own State Department covert operatives who were shipping millions of tons of weapons to Syria via Turkey and other staging areas. Russia was aware of our actions, and through the attack at the CIA operations center in Benghazi by proxy forces, exposed this operation to the world while putting a stop to this operation. It seems that everyone except the Western media reported what had taken place.

The “dirty little secret” that explains why we have not been told the truth about Benghazi is quite simple. The efforts to overthrow Assad from power are continuing, except the arms and munitions shipments are now originating primarily from Croatia. Overthrowing Assad would pose a direct threat to Russia, both militarily and economically. Are we to expect Russia’s Putin to simply accept this without response? No. So what is Russia doing to subvert our efforts? He is waging war against America, striking at the weak underbelly of our economy which is the “oil backed” dollar as identified in Michael Reagan’s article, Building on a Kernel of Truth.

Sadly, the Obama regime is doing nothing to protect us from this asymmetrical war. It’s as if they are allowing it to take place.

Although it was reported in The New York Times, few have paid attention to last week’s meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, but it was an extremely important event in terms of the planned murder of the U.S. dollar. An alliance is being forged between Russia and China to replace the USD as the reserve currency, already severely weakened by the policies of those in power, with a gold backed currency. Russia and China are hoarding gold to levels never before seen, while the U.S. issues worthless paper and digital currency backed by… nothing, save for the “oil-backed” scenario.

While reports do exist that cite the hoarding of gold by China and Russia, they are purposely under reporting their collective reserves. Meanwhile, Americans can’t even get honest answers to the amounts of our own gold reserves held in Fort Knox or the Federal Reserve. Don’t people find this reluctance for audit and inspection a bit curious if not outright suspicious?

The battle is being waged not only by military might but by a currency war. We are “being played” through our military involvement in the Middle East, including our covert operations against Syria at the behest of Saudi Arabia. Unlike Iraq, the war in Syria will explode, turn hot, and we will be engaged in an ominous battle that will quickly expand and turn deadly. Weakened militarily through the policies of the Obama regime, coupled with an already weakened economy, the U.S. will suffer consequences unlike anyone might imagine or is willing to address. It is a recipe for disaster planned and initiated by the global elite behind the central banking system, including those in our own government. We have been set up from within, lied to, and now, we are about to see exactly what this globalist system has in store for not only the United States, but every nation of the world.

It is critical to understand that the take-down of the U.S. will be the result of an asymmetrical war that includes the weakening of our military, our economy, and a direct assault on our ability to keep the dollar as the world reserve currency and protect the free flow of oil and energy to the United States.

Within the last week, China held a surprise naval exercise in the South China Sea. Meanwhile, Russia displayed their resurgent military night in the Black Sea. These exercises were conducted as U.S. military forces are spread thinly across many areas in the world. Is anyone paying attention here?

Just as certain a collapse of the dollar is coming, so will be chaos on the streets of America caused by this plan “to kill the dollar.” The central bankers and the leaders selected to govern each country have effectively used the Hegelian Dialectic[ii] to implement their agenda. Just as stated by George H.W. Bush on September 11, 1990, their predetermined solution of a “New World Order” is being formed before our very eyes. They’ve told us what they are doing, but we have chosen not to listen or failed to understand what was being said.

The U.S. has always been the firewall against the globalists. By their persistence, infiltration of global elitists into our government, and covert subversion from within, we are being led to slaughter. A view from space, looking at the larger picture of events for which many have questions, a clearer picture emerges. There will be some who dare to resist the pillaging of our bank accounts, the erosion of our rights, and the enslavement that comes with the dismantling of America.

The dust clouds visible on the far horizon that watchmen have been reporting for decades can now be seen as an attacking army of barbarians, whose fighters are now on the ladders and cannons are breaching our empire’s outer walls. Who knows how long the inner walls of our empire will survive the next wave of their coming attack.

Perhaps Ernest Hemmingway said it best in referencing John Donne from his novel of the same name… “And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.”

[ia] https://youtube.com/watch?v=5V3kp...ature=youtu.be

[ii] http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/dialectic.htm



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